Krasnoyarsk hacker tried to hack the State procurement site

The Krasnoyarsk court imprisoned a resident of Krasnoyarsk who tried to hack the State procurement site of the Vladimir region but was caught by the FSB.

According to the Prosecutor, in February 2016 hacker installed on his computer a special program for illegally copying files from other electronic devices. Further, he tried to hack the State procurement site of the administration of the Vladimir region and get logins and passwords to some data. However, the attempt to hack the State resource was identified and stopped by the FSB officers.

It should be noted that the defendant was an information security officer at a large Russian bank.

The court found the man guilty and sentenced him to 2 years of imprisonment with a fine of 50 thousand rubles.

The hacker disagreed with the decision of the court and tried to appeal the verdict, but the regional court rejected his arguments and left the decision of the court of the first instance unchanged.